In New Mexico during the late 1970's, there was a repeater on a remote
mountain peak whose battery was charged from a thermocouple driven by a
natural gas burner.  There was no mains power up there.

Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J >

On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Will Smith wrote:

> HI Andy and all,
>
> Many modern repeaters do have emergency power provisions, and occasionally
> you hear of one in a remote mountaintop location with no easy access to
> power that has solar/battery power sources.  Of course ten to 20 inches of
> rain in a day or less can knock out a lot of electronics, even with
> emergency backups if much of that water finds its way into the enclosures.
>
> 73,
>
> Will, K4SAY
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>
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2002, Andy Baracco wrote:
>
> > Well, so much for ham radio.  That surely points to the downfall of modern
> > technology.  Lose power, lose repeaters, lose communication.
> >
> > Andy  WQ6R
> >
> > At 03:55 AM 9/27/02 +600, you wrote:
> > >Well, we all weathered the storm all right.  I was without power
> > >for about 17 hours from a quarter to 7 Wednesday night till about
> > >1 P.M> yesterday afternoon.  The strange thing about that was that
> > >at the time power went out in my neighborhood there was nothing
> > >going on.  It was steadily raining, but there was no wind activity
> > >nor were their any tree limbs down that I know of, and this was
> > >confirmed by one of my neighbors who called a local radio talk
> > >show.
> > >
> > >anyway, I went to a friend's house who didn't loose power and
> > >stayed there for about 9 hours, but I am back home now.  So other
> > >than some time without power I didn't receive any flood damage.
> > >There was no water in my apartment although the street was flooded
> > >for a time and I didn't loose any property.
> > >
> > >I did not participate in any ham related activity this time, and I
> > >don't even know if there was any in my area as some of the
> > >repeaters went down.  But that's the story from New Orleans.
> > >
> > >Harvey
> > >"evil people prosper because good people do nothing."
> > >
> > >
> >
>